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Donald J. MuskM to Science NewsEnglish · 2 months ago

Certain sunflower strains can be induced to form seeds without pollination

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Certain sunflower strains can be induced to form seeds without pollination

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Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds through parthenogenesis in the absence of pollination. This discovery opens the possibility of a scalable doubled haploid system in sunflowers, a technique that could reduce the time needed to produce fully inbred lines from six years to ~10 months.
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